My brothers and I started playing Magic: The Gathering some 8-9 years ago and it was great fun. The problem we had was we didn't fully understand all the rules which made the game a little tough to play at times.

On top of that we made up some house-rules which led to ridiculous armies being produced and we completely disregarded that there are no official rules on playing more than two teams; playing with 3 or 4 people, all against each other, makes for some silly combat indeed. We played for a good while, but eventually strayed away from Magic. I think the biggest reason was not knowing the rules well enough.

Now, we've recently started playing again. Both with our old cards and a bunch of
new ones; I bought a Magic 2011 Fat Pack that came with some rather nicely dangerous cards and my brother have been raiding auctions for vast amounts of cheap cards. We've built a bunch of different decks in various colours and strengths that we randomly pick and play one another. Every now and then a friend joins in to play and we team up for "epic" 2 vs 2 battles.

I also bought the game Duels of the Planes- walkers for the Xbox360 which has helped immensely with sorting out the rules for us as well as explaining a lot of the cards abillities. Not to mention that it's fun and super-easy to play it while sitting relaxed in a couch in front of the tv. :-]

I suck at finishing games. I really do. For instance, I bought Super Paper Mario just shortly after it was released back in -07 and I loved it, but for some reason I stopped playing after only a few hours into the game. Now whenever I try to pick up from where I left off I have no clue what to do, or how, and usually end up turning it off again.

Another example is LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, the sequel to LostWinds (which I wrote a little about here). The game is awesome in almost every aspect but I simply can't sit down and just relax and play the game.

Sadly, this holds true for a lot of games I own.. :-|

When Mega Man 9 was released I was thrilled. I love the Mega Man games, especially the first games for the Nes. Mega Man 9 is hella hard though, and I have yet to beat more than one boss! o___o;

Mega Man 10 comes with the option to select an easier difficulty. Extra platforms are added to help the player along and some enemies have been swapped out or removed completely. That makes my life so much easier. In fact, a little too easy; it didn't take me very long to play through the game. But it has made me confident that I can play through on the normal difficulty this time around. :-]

I played through the first game a while back, loving it all the way through to the end. The missions got a bit repetative, but the incredibly fun gameplay made up for it all. When stores finally got the sequel up for pre-order I decided to get the "White" limited edition. I'm too cheap to buy the Black limited edition, but it will at least be cooler than the regular version. :D

The other day Blizzard revealed the third expansion to World of Warcraft; Cataclysm, and I can't wait to play it.

I had actually almost given up on ever playing WoW again. I haven't played in a while (not counting when I logged in for an hour to witness a trial on my friends RP-server). My subscription runs out in about three weeks and I didn't plan on renewing it. Hearing about the expansion and its new content changed my mind though - when Cataclysm hits the shelves, I'm coming back to you, Azeroth. Rest asured.

The new Alliance race Worgen looks really cool. I never really got into playing the Death Knight that was introduced in WotLK, but I'll definitely take a closer look at these feral wolf-beasts.

I'm starting the third week of my four-week vacation tomorrow. Can't say I've done a lot of creative stuff, other than my recently started hobby: cubeecrafting - even though I've only done two models so far; Kermit (which I made for my mum) and Domo-kun.

Most of my time has been spent in front of the tv; some movies and some series, but mostly playing games. My 360's in the dangerzone of overheating. (It's really not, it's nice and cool even when we've been at it for a few hours)..

We've played through a couple of games, many of which have been co-op with my brother. Played through Assassin's Creed and Gears of War. Grabbed all achievements in Resident Evil 5 (and we will probably never ever play that game again due to the long hours we've spent on it). Just an hour ago we finished Gears of War 2, which in my opinion was a much nicer (and longer?) game than the first.

Well, to break the trend of breaking my back (hurr hurr, though I think it will hurt beyond time) we're going on a trip to Stockholm on wednesday. Picking up a friend on the way there, we're not reeeeally sure what we're gonna do once we're up there -- nothing's been planned apart from the actual going-there. Think we'll stroll the city some, though, it's been ages since I was there last. Good company and a movie or two wont hurt (too much) either! :-]

I'm a sucker for boardgames, especially if they're fantasy-based and/or treasure-oriented. Monopoly or Risk can be fun to play, but they're too anchored in the real world for my liking. Bring me a Troll or someone weilding a sword any day. ;]

Drakborgen: Legenden
Drakborgen: Legenden was the first boardgame I bought and also the one we've played with the most. It's based on Drakborgen I & II which was released as Dungeonquest in English. The objective of the game is to enter the dungeon with your character and move towards the center where the dragon is watching her treasure. On the way there you'll face monsters and traps, opponents that may try to thwart your progress and the occassional dropped piece of treasure. It's a good fun game and I really only see two flaws; the timer sometimes move too fast and the dragon is too bloody strong. Other than that, it's golden. :]

Dungeon Twister
This is the most recent game I've bought, i got it only a few days ago. We've played it only twice, but it's a fun - and rather fast paced - game. By itself the game is for two players, but there is an expansion allowing for 3 or 4 players that I'm looking into buying. Two teams built up of characters with various strengths and weaknesses are trying to win by getting five "Victory Points". You earn points by escaping the dungeon or by killing your opponents. The players move through a maze built up over a set of rooms, and at the same time trying to keep the other team from leaving. All the rooms can be rotated, which makes for an everchanging maze. The floors have traps and some rooms are sealed off by "Portcullis", a portal-like door that only two of the characters can either open or break so the rest of the team can move through. And there's one character that moves through walls, which can make for some sneak attacks.

Dungeoneer
Dungeoneer is a series of stand-alone decks that can be played individually or combined with other decks. I have Dungeoneer: Call of the Lich Lord and Dungeoneer: Vault of the Fiends, the first two decks in the serie. Dungeoneer uses playing cards instead of tiles to construct the dungeon (which in my opinion is both good and bad; it's easier to stash the cards, but you can mess up the dungeon by breathing on it.). Each player gets to control a hero and you explore the dungeon while fighting monsters, completing quests, and leveling up along the way. It's good fun, except that I rarely win. In fact I think I have come out victorious only once...

Doom: The Boardgame
"Attention all Marines! We are under invasion. I repeat, we are under invasion!" While it's not fantasy, it's fantastic enough for three games. Doom is built closely resembling the videogame with lots of figurines portraying the Space Marines and the demonic invaders. One player controls the invading forces and up to three other players control the Marines that are trying to escape the base on Mars. During the game the players encounter new weapons and items that will help them on their way through the vast hordes of demons. I'm not a huge fan of games where one player is the "game master", but Doom is a pretty neat game none the less.

Cave Troll
Each player controls a group of explorers that are raiding the Cave Trolls...well...cave. This game isn't as fantastic as the others, the map is always the same and the gameplay is almost too easy, so it gets a little boring after a while. We've never tried playing with the alternative monsters and rules though, something that might make it more exciting.

I decided to order GH: Metallica (along with World Tour for the instruments), splitting the cost with my brother.

Unfortunately I ordered it for the wong console; the Wii instead of the 360. D'oh!

It's just a matter of sending it back to have it replaced, but it's still a bit of a bummer. I really need to start paying attention to what I'm doing.. Silly thing.

Silly update: I recieved a mail stating that I could bring the package along to their nearest store to get a refund and/or swap for the correct version. I went but we quickly realised that a part of the shipment was missing - GH: Metallica. After a bit of searching and a quick call to support they could confirm that it had been sent in a separate package, which I hadn't picked up on (sometimes threaded mails in Gmail can be a nuisance if you're not observant). Nothing much to do but to return home with the box to await GH:M which'll hopefull be here Monday. And then return once more to swap 'em.... -sigh- Sometimes our postal services are a bit....postal..

A further update: Got the parcel and went to swap it for the right version. Turns out they were sold out, but I got my money back. We decided to order the game from another store that had the games in stock. Previous purchase was a bundle with both Live Tour and Metallica but we decided to buy them separately (which was a little bit more expencive). Also, instead of just ordering the game, we decided to get the version that included a guitar. A mighty cool looking guitar, if ou ask me. :]

The game's pretty sweet, and rather challenging. At least on drums, I can't play a higher difficulty than medium without fucking up too badly. ;D I thought drums would be pretty easy, having played real drums in the past, but the way we had the drums positioned back then is almost mirrowed to this drumkit. Makes it more of a challenge = more fun. :] The only crappy thing I can think of when playing drums is that they are pretty noisy (no shit, they're drums!?) and it makes it hard to listen to the song without a reasonable loud volume. Playing is a great workout though. ;]